Leviticus 16:20-31

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁰ When he has finished making atonement to cleanse the sanctuary, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat. ²¹ Then Aaron shall lay his two hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the guilt of the people of Israel and all their rebellions and all their sins. He is to put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness in the custody of an appointed man. ²² So the goat will carry all their guilt on itself to a remote, desolate place, and the man will send the goat away into the wilderness.

²³ Then Aaron shall enter the Tent of Meeting, take off the special linen garments that he had put on to enter into the sanctuary, and leave them there. ²⁴ He shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his regular garments. Then he shall go out and offer the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people to make atonement for himself and for the people. ²⁵ He shall turn the fat from the sin offering into smoke on the altar.

²⁶ The man who releases the goat designated as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water. After that he may re-enter the camp. ²⁷ The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood has been brought in to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall be brought outside the camp. Their hide and flesh and manure are to be burned in fire. ²⁸ The man who burns them is to wash his clothes and bathe his body in water. After that he may re-enter the camp.

²⁹ This shall be a permanent regulation for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble yourselves, and you shall not do any kind of work, neither the native-born nor the alien who resides among you. ³⁰ For on this day atonement will be made on your behalf to cleanse you. You will become clean from all your sins in the presence of the Lord. ³¹ It shall be a sabbath of complete rest, and you shall humble yourselves. It is a permanent regulation.